Ashley Graham stepped out in London on Sunday for a night on le town, and while the mega-babe's hair and fit were gorgeous, all we could see — or not see — were her brows. Noah Cyrus, Kylie Jenner, Shay Mitchell, Cara Delivingne, Ashley is joining a growing list of celebs to debut bleached brows. Looking as glamorous as always, we couldn't get over how different she looked without her enviable chunky dark brows.
Sharing a collage and carousel to Instagram, Ashley told fans and followers: "tonight called for vintage Galliano and bleached brows".
A first we were thinking it was a subtle take on the trend, as Ashley's brows were far from completely bleached out or 'Naked'. Appearing considerably lighter than usual, we did think they were perhaps just left unfilled and concealed a little.
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But after seeing them in the pap shots we were shook. Brows barely visible, Ashley's whole face looks so different. And we're kind of obsessed.
If this had been our first sighting, we aren't even 100% sure we'd recognise her. The centre part in her long dark hair, worn loose and falling around her shoulders, only helped to frame the ethereal look.
That deep rum-n-raisin nude lip added just enough colour to take focus away from the lost brows, but without washing her out (a serious risk when one is brow-less).
Bleached brows aren't going anywhere any time soon, and even more indicative than celebs, we've started to see them out in the wild (aka the streets of London). So expect to see a lot more, or a lot less, of them through 2023.
Elena Chabo is Cosmopolitan UK's former beauty writer, working on everything from buzzy celeb news and trending beauty, to sincere first-person reviews and engaging video content for social media. She also creates meatier features and expert-led how-to guides, for print and online. Her passion for Black beauty, textured hair, and the ways beauty interacts with culture, society, identity and relationships, quickly took over her writing career and led her into beauty journalism. Following an MA in Magazine Journalism in 2017, she cut her teeth across various roles at Stylist Magazine, before taking on a Digital Writer role at Good Housekeeping. It was here that beauty took centre stage and she launched and ran the site's first stand-alone beauty section. Remaining at Hearst, she joined the Cosmo beauty team in 2022. Find her on LinkedIn.
